Two-steppin' to a different beat

Local recording studio Taliesyn will stage a Country Music Jam Saturday at the Centre Theatre, when Five Card Draw, Cindy Moorhead, Jerry & the Ruf-Nex and others will provide plenty of reasons to two-step and tap your toes.
   Moorhead sings mostly weepy country ballads about standard country music subjects - love, yellow roses, broken promises and jealousy. She recently released her debut album, "Next Time Around."
   Five Card Draw is a staple of the local country scene, performing an updated style of honky-tonk that bears shows the influence of classic rock and Texas roadhouse music.
   Return of the native
   Welcome Roger Creager home at his Saturday night Surf Club gig. Four years ago the Corpus Christi native left a promising job as an accountant for a Fortune 500 company to pursue his dream - becoming a professional musician. Now 30 years old and a major regional draw, Creager plays nearly 150 shows a year.
   His fantastic five-man band plays classic Texas country, at times diversifying the sound with a wailing harmonica or smooth steel guitar. But Creager's voice is always at the forefront. Whether he's singing about lost love or Mexican jails, his silky smooth tenor is guaranteed draw.
   Rock and country fusionists Cross Canadian Ragweed open.
   Other side of Nashville
   They may come from Nashville, but don't expect Disarray to appear in ten-gallon hats or cowboy boots. The three-man hard-rock band emerged from the other Nashville music scene - a growling, angry bunch of heavy-metal scenesters.
   But the band embraces certain elements of Southern culture - most notably the rock of bands like Molly Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose influence emerges from the band's much harder sound. Disarray's version of "Free Bird" is an explosive charge of fierce death metal, but the tribute somehow remains recognizable
   9 Kills 9 and COL open the Centre Theatre show.
   More than Tejano
   Randy Garibay wants to change what he sees as a common misconception, that the only music being made by Hispanics in South Texas is Tejano. Garibay's been playing his unique breed of R&B-flavored blues around Texas and the Southwest since the early '60s, and recently celebrated 40 years of being a professional musician with a new CD, "Barbacoa Blues."
   The veteran bluesman is a native of a rough but close-knit barrio in San Antonio, where he learned to play guitar at the age of 18 when his brother gave him a Sears & Roebuck model for his birthday.
   Nunn better
   When most people think of the Texas sound, it's the type of no-frills country music that Gary P. Nunn plays. Once designated as official Texas Ambassador to the World by former-Gov. Mark White, Nunn is also known for "London Homesick Blues," the song that serves as the theme music to "Austin City Limits."
   Pick up his greatest-hits album, "What I Like About Texas," for a great introduction to what he's about, then meander over to the Executive Surf Club for his Thursday night show.